Improved fish-hook



J. JOHNSON.

Fish- Hook.

j Patented Oct. 9, 1855.

N PETERS. Pholn-Lilho n har Washmgton D C f York,

preference being I of the same as ready for in constructing a cluster I form, jo1ned together in the center where the sinker beneath the cluster of hooks.

. and great facility is given for UNITED STATES PATENT 7 OFFICE.

JOB JOHNSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED FISH-HOOK.

Specification forming To all whom it may 007ZO67'7L.

Beit known that I, JOB JOHNSON, ofBrooklyn', in the county of Kings and State of New haveinvented, made, and applied to use certain new and useful Improvements in Fish- Hooks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, wherein Figure 1 is a plan of my improved fish-hook with eight points. Fig. 2 is a side eley ation use; and Fig. 3 is a similar side elevation with but four instead of eight hooks, although a greater or less number of hooks might be used.

Similar marks of reference indicate the parts.

The nature of my said invention consists of hooks in a spider same line is attached, and also provided with a The bait is ,to be attached in a mass around the shank ofthe hooks, near where the line is attached, and the cluster of hooks standingout all around below the bait, when nibbling at the bait h spider orcluster of hooks, catching the fish by ,the gills, and securing the angler feels the fish e suddenly jerks up the him. Thus one or more fish can be caught as they stand radially around nibbling at the bait.

The hooks being below and out of sight to 1 the fish, Iinake use of them also by a peculiar spring-throat to receive separate hooks that can each be baited separately, and hanging from the ends of the spider or cluster of hooks, each hook is kept separate from the others and is not liable to become entangled. Thus fish coming up from below can be caught as well as in the ordinary manner, and the springthroat on the end of the arms of the spider enables me to hook on different-sized hooks adapted to the fish abounding in the vicinity, and each hook hangs separate when in use,

speedily changing'hooks, instead of the inconvenience and part of Letters Patent No. 13,649, dated October 9, 1855.

loss of time now usual in tying or splicing on hooks to a line, and when any book becomes entangled or broken in a fish the same can be slipped off and a new one substituted.

In the annexed drawings, a is a line or cord, of suitable size, passed through and secured to an eye, 1), formed in the wire of which the spider c e is composed, and the said spider c 0, composed of any suitable number of arms, is brazed together near the loop I), so as to be permanently constructed. On the end of the arms 0 0 books 1 l are formed, which act to catch the fish which may be nibbling at the bait placed around the shank, as at 3 3, when said hooks are suddenly raised by a pull on the line a; and 2 2 are the throats formed near the ends of the arms 0 c, which spring open as the hooks e e are forced on, and close again sufficient to retain the hook in place when in use. Thus these books 0 can be changed or replaced in the manner and for the purposes before detailed.

d is the sinker to keep the hooks in place.

I do not claim forming a spider of hooks in themselves, as the same .have been used for meat and a variety of other purposes; but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The method herein described and shown of catching fish by means of a cluster or spider of hooks beneath and around suitable bait, so that said hooks can he suddenly raised up and catch the fish while nibbling at the bait, in the manner and for the purposes specified. I

2. The method herein set forth of attaching and hanging the hooks e from the ends of the spider-arms c by means of the spring-throat whereby said hooks can be varied or replenished, in the manner and for the purposes specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 8th day of September, 1855.

JOB JoHNsoN.

Witnesses:

LEMUEL W. SERRELL, THOMAS G. HAROLD, 

